China Mobile Adds Subscribers

Updated May 21, 2004 12:01 a.m. ET

China Mobile (Hong Kong) Ltd. said subscribers to its GSM, or global system for mobile communications, network rose by 3.015 million last month. The net addition, a 2.6% fall from the record net addition of 3.097 million users in March, took the company's customer base to 153.3 million by the end of April. China's largest mobile-phone operator said the acceleration in its net user additions in recent months was due to its efforts to promote a prepaid regional service called Shenzhouxing that targets low-end consumers. Minutes of use, average revenue per user and operating costs for Shenzhouxing users are generally...